In this boxed set of handsomely produced and portable classics, comfortably sized for the palm, Diane Johnson introduces three masterpieces of travel writing about France. Robert Louis Stevenson's Travels with a Donkey is the notebook he kept during his respite from poor health, tormented love, and inadequate friends—a thoroughly entertaining account of the French people and their country. James Fenimore Cooper's Gleanings in France, one of his rarest works, is a discriminating portrait of France in the last days of its final experiment with monarchy, while Edith Wharton proclaims "the motor-car has restored the romance of travel" and sets off across the French countryside.